GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
ROGER CHAFFEE

We've got a bad fire - let's get out ... we're burning up.

Roger Chaffee

Apollo 1 test. Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom, and Ed White were killed in the ground test.

How are we going to get to the Moon if we can't talk between two or three buildings?

Virgil 'Gus' Grissom

Radio transmission expressing frustration with NASA communication equipment during the plugs out test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft, 27 January 1967. Astronauts Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee would be dead two minutes later, when their command module experienced a fire in its pure oxygen environment.



See one other Gus Grissom great aviation quote.

Grissom: Flame!

Chaffee: We've got a fire in the cockpit. … We’ve got a bad fire— let’s get out … we’re burning up.

Virgil 'Gus' Grissom & Roger Chaffee

Last recorded words Apollo 1 test, 18:31 local time 27 January 1967. Astronauts Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire erupted in the cockpit during a launch rehearsal. They were trapped, on the ground, in the Saturn IB launch vessel AS-204 during a plug-out test. It was found that the fire was likely caused by a short circuit from a bundle of wires in the pure oxygen atmosphere.

Other listeners heard the garbled transmission as “They're fighting a bad fire—Let's get out ... Open 'er up”, or “I'm reporting a bad fire ... I'm getting out ... ”